The Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF) is a membership organisation which supports the work of independent charitable grant-making trusts and foundations in the UK by:enabling trusts and foundations to learn from each other's experience, to discuss matters of common concern, to confer with funders from other sectors, and to achieve good practice in grant-makingseeking a constructive influence on the law affecting grant-making charities, and providing relevant information to the membershipencouraging philanthropy and promoting the development of new grant-making foundationsseeking to improve understanding of trusts and foundations among grant-seekers and the general public.